Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Jan 2009 22:37 UTC
While we're on the subject of netbooks today, I ran across a story by Ars Technica's Erica Sadun, who writes for Ars' Infinite Loop (Apple) section. She poses that Apple already sells a netbook: the iPod Touch and the iPhone. I've heard many people make this claim before (including Steve Jobs himself), but I find it very hard to see the iPod Touch and the iPhone as netbooks.
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Member since:2008-07-15
The post I replied to is complaining that an iPhone can't be called a Netbook because it won't run his XP programs.
I think you read too much into that. Though the OP was referring to XP it was really a much more general point: the software run by the OP's netbook is the same software run by a typical x86-based system.
Member since:2006-02-28
So if someone brought out a iPhone port of openoffice.org would it be a netbook the? .It already has a webbrowser and email, which other bit of software is it missing, does google docs work with them, do they count as the 'missing software' ?
Isn't it a bit like saying a Linux box is not an PC becuae it doesn't run Photoshop (ignoring WINE for a second).
It seems to me no one has a real arguement against the iPhone / iPod Touch being a netbook without restricting the definition of what a netbook is to deliberately exclude Apple devices,
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2006-03-27
The post I replied to is complaining that an iPhone can't be called a Netbook because it won't run his XP programs.